Tuesday, February 5, 2013

GODDAMNSONOFABITCH

I usually reserve that particular expletive for when I stub
my toe, but I felt the need to employ it this evening in a totally different
situation.

I’ve been practicing with my Samsung tablet using the Sketchbook
Pro App, trying to get a handle on this whole ‘digital’ thing.

I was putting the finishing touches on a sketch when I must
have inadvertently brushed the ‘home’ button on the toolbar and BAM the program
closed without so much as a ‘how do you do’ or asking me if I wanted to save it
first!

“GODDAMNSONOFABITCH!!!!!!”

I spent over an hour working on that damn sketch!

It wasn’t a masterpiece but it was pretty good (and of
course it’s going to take on epic qualities now that it’s gone and I can’t be
proven otherwise! {Think: the one that got away fish story!} LOL)

So I had to have a little self talk to work myself out of
the major pout I was about to have.

Me: “GODDAMNSONOFABITCH!!!!!!”

Self: “What?”

Me: “I just lost the whole sketch!”

Self: “Did you save it at any time during the hour you were
working on it? Like an intelligent person would do?”

Me: “No.” (Hanging her head in shame because she knows
better.)

Self: “Aw, that’s too bad……and stupid! LOL”

Me: “What a waste of time THAT was!”

Self: “Well now, lets’ think about that. Did you have a good
time in that hour?”

Me: “Yes.”

Self: “We’re you learning more about the program as you were
using it?”

Me: “Yes.”

Self: “Wasn’t that one of the objectives of the exercise?”

Me: “Yes.”

Self: “So it wasn’t a waste of time after all. You learned
more about the program, you learned you have to save periodically so as not to lose
something you like, and you passed a pleasant hour of your day doing what you
like to do. I don’t see that as a waste of time. I see that as a very good use
of time.”

Me: “Yeah, I guess you’re right. But I REALLY liked that sketch!”

Self: “If you did it once you can do it again, AND spend
another pleasant hour doing what you like to do!”